# Whats the stupidest question ever asked?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stupidest-question-ever-asked/8158
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 3, 2000, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stupidest-question-ever-asked/8158 "2000-03-03T20:56:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2000, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stupidest-question-ever-asked/8158/41 "2000-03-05T12:54:00Z")
The “are you back from vcation?” question.
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### Author:  [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2000, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stupidest-question-ever-asked/8158/42 "2000-03-06T03:13:00Z")
From me - Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday night: “Did you do/finish your homework yet?”
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### Author:  [@Wood\_Thrush](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wood_Thrush)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2000, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stupidest-question-ever-asked/8158/43 "2000-03-06T03:33:00Z")
Hmm…What’s the stupedist question ever asked? Well, I don’t know, but its probably one that someone repeated before giving a reply.
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“Whenever a man hears it
he is young, and Nature
is in her spring;
whenever he hears it, it
is a new world and a free
country, and the gates of
heaven are not shut
against him”
–Thoreau, on
the song of the wood thrush
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### Author:  [@Edward\_J\_Cunningham\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_J_Cunningham_1)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2000, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stupidest-question-ever-asked/8158/44 "2000-03-06T03:35:00Z")
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> oh no, it definitly has to be one that my friend asked me when we were fifteen.
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> “if i dropped this candle in the water, would the whole lake start on fire?”
Good think you didn’t do that in Lake Erie!
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### Author:  [@Girl\_Next\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_Next_Door)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2000, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stupidest-question-ever-asked/8158/45 "2000-03-06T03:43:00Z")
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> What is the third name in this series: 1. John, 2. John Quincy 3. ?
Gomez?
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Leslie Irish Evans
[http://leslie.scrappy.net](http://leslie.scrappy.net)
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### Author:  [@Edward\_J\_Cunningham\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_J_Cunningham_1)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2000, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stupidest-question-ever-asked/8158/46 "2000-03-06T03:47:00Z")
How about this one? A local reporter asked this to some Redskin during a Super Bowl press conference.
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If you were a tree, what type of tree would you be?[/would]
Maybe it isn’t the stupidest question ever asked, but it was **definitely** the stupidest question ever asked during a Super Bowl.
(Note: Some people would claim that question would be one said to Doug Williams: “How long have you been a black quarterback” , but that was a misquote. The actual question is smarter. “Doug, it’s obvious you’ve been a black quarterback all your life. When did it start to matter?”)
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### Author:  [@Edward\_J\_Cunningham\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_J_Cunningham_1)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2000, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stupidest-question-ever-asked/8158/47 "2000-03-06T03:50:00Z")
How about this one? A local reporter asked this to some Redskin during a Super Bowl press conference.
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> If you were a tree, what type of tree would you be?
Maybe it isn’t the stupidest question ever asked, but it was **definitely** the stupidest question ever asked during a Super Bowl.
(Note: Some people would claim that question would be one said to Doug Williams: “How long have you been a black quarterback” , but that was a misquote. The actual question is smarter. “Doug, it’s obvious you’ve been a black quarterback all your life. When did it start to matter?”)
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### Author:  [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2000, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stupidest-question-ever-asked/8158/48 "2000-03-06T07:15:00Z")
That’s a Barbara Walters question! Not some local reporter. She’s famous for having asked someone that, but I certainly have no idea who was being questioned. I don’t think I was born at the time.
I once heard Bob Costas ask that, but he was joking.
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~Harborina
“Don’t Do It.”
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### Author:  [@Pooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pooch)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2000, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stupidest-question-ever-asked/8158/49 "2000-03-06T07:51:00Z")
Do you want fries with that?
No, okay, then this question to me from a Japanese in a Tokyo pub:
Do you eat chicken in America?
My answer: Yeah, when we can catch 'em.
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### Author:  [@Nickrz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nickrz)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2000, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-stupidest-question-ever-asked/8158/50 "2000-03-06T11:04:00Z")
Argh.
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